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Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data in c/privacy

[–] Dnn 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

While I hate the dominance of WhatsApp in Europe, at least we hardly use SMS anymore. What's up with that in the US?

Lemmy Active Users looking good in c/fediverse

[–] Dnn 9 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Oh, many more were upset - just too lazy to inconvenience themselves with switching platforms.

Eggs on lent in c/microblogmemes

Most American meme you've ever seen. in c/lemmyshitpost

[–] Dnn 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

toughen up folks.

Common notion - until people need therapy themselves and realize it can hit everyone, also the "tough" ones.

AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble in c/technology

[–] Dnn 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The dotcom bubble was different. Now, everything related to actual AI development is hyped but the dotcom bubble inflated entire indexes, "new market" indexes were setup comprising companies nobody had ever heard of. It was orders of magnitude worse.

Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth in c/technology

[–] Dnn 14 points 2 years ago (10 children)

What should? Stock buybacks? Why?

*Permanently Deleted* in c/outoftheloop

Believe it or not, git checkout in c/programminghumor

Atheists still believe in the supernatural, new report finds (2019 article) in c/atheism

fight me in c/linuxmemes

[–] Dnn 14 points 2 years ago

Well, trying to take your point seriously I guess you could argue that companies with paying customers do have an incentive to keep stuff compatible. However, also FOSS devs don't like public shitstorms by their users which should be a similarly effective.

However, you just argue based on annecodotal evidence without explaining how your examples are exclusive to FOSS.